To give a little more perspective to the length of time that's being described, consider that the Big Bang occurred less than 14 billion years ago. That is, all the time that has ever been since our universe began is a rounding error in the length of time described in the song.
If one were to construct a timeline which stretched the entire diameter of the Milky Way galaxy (100,000 light years or 9.461×10 to the 18 km) which corresponds to the length of time described in this song, the distance on this timeline representing the time between the Big Bang and today would be roughly 100 nanometers. 100nm is very roughly 1/1000 the diameter of a human hair.
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Keith said on June 27, 2008:
To give a little more perspective to the length of time that's being described, consider that the Big Bang occurred less than 14 billion years ago. That is, all the time that has ever been since our universe began is a rounding error in the length of time described in the song.
If one were to construct a timeline which stretched the entire diameter of the Milky Way galaxy (100,000 light years or 9.461×10 to the 18 km) which corresponds to the length of time described in this song, the distance on this timeline representing the time between the Big Bang and today would be roughly 100 nanometers. 100nm is very roughly 1/1000 the diameter of a human hair.
My mind is blown, Mr. Martsch.